Re: Orkney News for Friday 13th

[Niven Sinclair <niven@niven.co.uk>]

At 13:10 23/10/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Well, I know I would sure shake them up!   Claire
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Margaret Stokes" <milamba@optushome.com.au>
>To: <sinclair@matrix.net>
>Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 4:04 AM
>Subject: Orkney News for Friday 13th
>
>
> > Strange But True (UK)
> > Friday October 13, 2000
> >
> > You Can't Tell An Older Woman What To Do
> >
> > Monks have banned women under 30 from wearing revealing clothes or
> > listening to music while they are working on a Scottish island. The Roman
> > Catholic Transalpine Redemptorists have, however, baulked at extending the
> > ban to women over 30 because, as their spokesman explained, older women
> > will not be bossed about. The monks, who live on Papa Stronsay in Orkney,
> > imposed the strict dress code after a group of archaeologists arrived to
> > excavate a mediaeval chapel. Initially the young female archaeology
> > students dressed like their male colleagues in jeans and T-shirts but the
> > monks, who own the island, thought it immodest and asked them to cover up.
> > Now all women shy of 30 must wear ankle-length skirts, long-sleeved tops
> > and cover their heads. The restriction does not apply to older women
> > because "it can be very difficult telling women over 30 what to do," Friar
> > Michael Mary, vicar general of the order, said. Although the dress code
> > makes life more difficult for the eight women digging at the site of St
> > Nicholas chapel, the archaeologists have adhered to the rule. Besides the
> > dress code, the archaeologists have other conditions to observe on Papa
> > Stronsay. They cannot listen to the radio or CDs, even through headphones,
> > and they are not allowed to blaspheme. Anyone who breaks the rules faces
> > immediate expulsion to the mainland.
> >
> > Good thing I'm over 30!! hehehehehe
> >
> > Milamba


The monks sound like Muslims or it may be that they fear for their own vows of
celibacy by the sight of bare (female) flesh.

Men of the cloth invariably condemn in others that which they fear most in 
themselves
or it may be that the monks would wish us all to believe in their purity in 
order to disguise
their own predilections.

I always have my doubts about those who profess to be holier than the rest 
of us.

It is the sinner who has my trust.

Niven Sinclair

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